Wednesday 30 September 2009

New Front cover (update)


This is the second edition of my preliminary task mock up magazine cover. What do you think of the picture? As you can see it is a medium close up and I think it shows what the text says; there is clear achorage. The text and headline talk about the singer "making it big" and the medium close up of a young pupil jetting off to live the "rock and roll" lifestyle. This portrays the school as being very successful and will hopefully draw in more readers when this picture is seen. I have used publisher to adapt the photo and crop it, when making my music magazine i will use photoshop and Indesign so the software is more capable of making my magazine look more realistic. Also i felt that using publisher and then using in design and photoshop will allow me, as a media student, to notice the progress and developments of media software and how a piece of work in Photoshop and Indesign can look alot more professional than using publisher.

Friday 25 September 2009

preliminary task mock up







This is my premlinary task, before the big finish! After i have analysed it i will add a medium close up photograph and explain the meaning and conventions behind it. To start off desiging this front cover i chose a border, as you can see, i choose this certain one as it was bright but yet "edgy", i would also like this to convey that the school is bright and colourful, with perhaps an "edge". The colours on the border i have also used throughout the cover as font colours, this was so there was not a drastic difference in the colour scheme and so it is still pleasing to the eye.










The font throughout is Arial unicode MS, i decided this font would be an interesting choice as it is bold and eye catching but yet not too dramatic, just the right type suited to my magazine, this is one of the main conventions of magazine's particularly music one's such as NME; the font is bold and intruiging. The words "GCSE RESULTS EVER" are in red to communicate a bold message. Also the color red is often ossociated with love and happiness the fact that the school acheived the best GCSE reults of all time is a "happy" thing and this colour communicates this. Moreover the heart placed below the mast head matches this and also portrays happiness. This heart is also symbollic of the singer's (picture that will be placed on the magazine) love for music and his happiness that he has reached stardom.










The headline is in black writing so it is extra bold but has an orange border to match the main border, again keeping in line with the colour scheme. The message is that this school is bright and modern and very sucessful and i feel these colours stand out and show this message, it is the connotation. For the masthead I came up with the name "School PAS". This is symoblic and the "PAS" stands for parents and students, there is ideology between the two and the "PAS" shows the connection. I thought this was an intersting idea as it is different to a normal masthead. The font used for the masthead is unusual it is Arial unicode MS, i picked this font as it gave the shcool a "rock and roll" stardom feel. I would like some feedback on this to see if you agree?










The background i kept was white as it adds a clean feel i knew that if i changed it to another colour the picture in the end would not stand out as much as i had wanted it to. Also if the background has been changed to say, black this would connotate the school as dull and dark.
Finally i have added a mock up of what the contents page would look like.






Let me know what you think of my preliminary task so far, i will add any updates, thanks.

Also when adding this picture unfortunately parts of the text moves so the box indicates where the picture should be!

Thursday 24 September 2009

Hi welcome to my blog,

This blog contains all work completed for my As portfolio including all of the preparation and evaluations. I upload all of my work via my blog for you to look at frequently for any updates.

Your are welcome to leave any feedback comments that i could look at and use to improve my portfolio. I will also be including polls and perhaps questionnaires that people can participate in.

I hope you enjoy viewing my work! Melissa